Personal stories
Below please find the latest personal stories about advisors, inspirators and global volunteers.
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Anyone Can be a Leader |
| 11 September 2011 |
| In July the Global Platform in Amman was filled to capacity. Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Jordanian and, for the first time, also Egyptian youth gathered for a three week educational course, Training of Trainers (ToT). Two of the participants, Ibrahim & Nasma, take stock of their stay. |
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Global Change Course |
| 19 July 2011 |
| 26-year old Abdurahman from Jordan attended the Global Change Course in Copenhagen. Read his account here |
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Thank you for letting us be part of this |
| 21 May 2010 |
| In February and March 2010, two Danish volunteers travelled on the Democracy Bus. Aja and Andrea share their thoughts after spending six weeks in Southern Sudan. |
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Fighting traditions |
| 20 May 2010 |
| Mary Banda has fought and won over a Zambian tradition that gives women less rights to land than men. |
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Chasing the money |
| 20 May 2010 |
| The mining for manganese in Luapula Province in Zambia is a mixed blessing to the people of the province, reveals a new report done by Civil Society for Poverty Reduction in Luapula. |
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A volunteer with a passion - the story of Humphrey |
| 20 May 2010 |
| Three years ago Humphrey Zulu was a volunteer for the Anti Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) in Zambia. Then, he helped the organisation in the Voter Education Campaigns. Today he works as their Youth Mobilization and Campaigns Officer. |
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The Inspirator Pilot Review |
| 19 May 2010 |
| MS ActionAid Denmark's "inspirator pilot programme" holds great potentials and is a sharing of ideas and experience that can provide highly needed capacity building of partner organisations across borders and add value to our development programmes, says the ActionAid country directors from Uganda and Zimbabwe. |
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Nina Bak Nielsen - three months in Zambia |
| 29 June 2009 |
| Nina Bak Nielsen from Fjerritslev in Denmark has lived her life in ”African style” the past three months. It is not an experience for the faint of heart. |
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Maja helps young people in Zambia |
| 11 June 2009 |
| 19-year-old Maja Tandrup Pedersen, originally from Gelsted in Denmark, has been teaching young people in Zambia for three months – even though she isn't very much older than her pupils. |
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Africa changed our lives |
| 08 June 2009 |
| Malou Christensen and Catrine Gangergaard went directly from graduating their high school in Denmark to Zambia in Africa, where they are now living and teaching. |
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There's a rat living in my drawer |
| 07 June 2009 |
| Rats, scorpions, and 14-year-old married girls, are just some of the things Jonathan and Sinne from Denmark have had to get used to while living in northern Zambia for the past three months. |
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7829 kilometres from home |
| 02 June 2009 |
| Astrid Knudsen and Marie Jæger, two young Danish women, have become experts in body language, after living among the Bemba people in northern Zambia for the past three months. |
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Stories of global volunteers |
| 12 February 2009 |
| Global volunteers tell their stories working in Tanzania and Uganda and about a Next Stop tour to Syria and Lebanon. |
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Marina Buch Kristensen tells on video |
| 12 February 2009 |
| Marina Buch Kristensen tells about her work as an advisor in a NGO fighting corruption in Uganda, and Jasper Tumuhimbise from the NGO comments on her efforts. |
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Luiz Chavez tells on video |
| 12 February 2009 |
| Luiz Chavez from Brazil tells about his work as an inspirator for a "Forum Theatre" group in Mozambique and Zaina Raja from the group comments on his efforts. |
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Linda Ncube tells on video |
| 12 February 2009 |
| Linda Ncube from Seychelles tells about her work with information and advocacy in Zimbabwe. |
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Stories of three MS change agents |
| 12 February 2009 |
| Marina Buch Kristensen from Denmark, Luiz Chavez from Brazil and Linda Ncube from Seychelles tell their stories working with development in Uganda, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. |
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I wanted to do something for others |
| 28 May 2008 |
| MS Tanzania receives more than 50 Danish volunteers every year. One of them is Jonas Tofte who worked for three months as a volunteer in a nursery school in Kwa Mattias. |
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:: louder than swahili – a weblog |
| 17 December 2007 |
| Pernille Bærendtsen has blogged since she left Copenhagen for Africa in June 2005. First from two years in northern Uganda, and since September 2007 from Dar Es Salaam where she works as information officer for MS Tanzania - ActionAid Denmark. |
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Line Engbo Gissel - DW blog |
| 03 October 2007 |
| Line Engbo Gissel is an MS Development worker who lives and works in Apac - Northern, here she shares her experience and views on living in this area. |
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A role model who does not fight |
| 04 June 2007 |
| Charlie Soender Buchardt has been involved in a variety of different tasks as a volunteer in Isiolo under the MS Kenya programme. One of them was to work with orphans which has given him a unique understanding of the local culture. |
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Development worker perspective |
| 09 February 2007 |
| How do the Development Workers experience democracy and participation. Here Dorthe and Peder share their stories. |
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Jesp in Tanzania - a weblog |
| 15 May 2006 |
| Jesp in Tanzania. A blog about the work and life of Jesper Guhle Mogensen, IT adviser based in Dar es Salaam |
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Schafik Handal is Dead |
| 27 January 2006 |
| A struggle between the different wings of the leftist FMLN is bound to ensue, but not before the elections of 12 March, says Jaime López, director of the Salvadoran NGO Probidad. |
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Yaya Konaté - Africa will survive |
| 26 July 2005 |
| Yaya Konaté is not just “any” Development Worker. He is the first south Development Worker on contract with MS Mozambique. |
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A Day in the life of an a Administrator at MS Zambia |
| 01 December 2004 |
| Yesterday I woke up to the sound of guards changing shifts. No, I do not live near Buckingham palace, so the guards are not bearing tall, fuzzy flamboyant hats that royalty is made of. The five minutes I spent eating breakfast, I simultaneously spent stroking the dog with my right foot whilst eating a bowl of cereal and fruit. That is his quota of affection for the day. As always I practiced my off road driving skills on Lusaka’s Lunar back roads |
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Mette Frost - A flirt with democracy |
| 31 January 2004 |
| Since June 2003 Mette Frost Bertelsen has been working for MS as an analysis adviser in the organisation IPADE in Nicaragua. |
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